Arthur Rimbaud — Ma bohème song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Ma bohème" by Arthur Rimbaud.

Lyrics

Je m’en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées;
Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal;
J’allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal;
Oh! là! là! que d’amours splendides j’ai rêvées!
Mon unique culotte avait un large trou
Petit-Poucet rêveur, j'égrenais dans ma course
Des rimes. Mon auberge était à la Grande-Ourse
Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux froufrou
Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes
Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes
De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur;
Où, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques
Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques
De mes souliers blessés, un pied près de mon coeur!

Lyrics translation

I was leaving, my fists in my hollowed-out pockets;
My paletot also became ideal;
I was going under the sky, Muse! and I was your Feal;
Oh! there! there! what splendid loves I dreamed of!
My sole panties had a wide hole
Small-thumb dreamer, I was gouging in my run
Rhyme. My inn was at the Big Bear
My stars in the sky had a sweet frilly
And I listened to them, sitting by the side of the roads
Those good September nights where I smelled drops
Dew on my forehead, like a wine of vigor;
Where, rhyming in the middle of the fantastic shadows
Like lyres, I pulled the rubber bands
From my wounded shoes, a foot near my heart!